House Speaker John Boehner couldnt hold back when he spotted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the White House lobby last Friday.

It was only a few days before the nation would go over the fiscal cliff, no bipartisan agreement was in sight, and Reid had just publicly accused Boehner of running a dictatorship in the House and caring more about holding onto his gavel than striking a deal.

Go f yourself, Boehner sniped as he pointed his finger at Reid, according to multiple sources present.

Reid, a bit startled, replied: What are you talking about?

Boehner repeated: Go f yourself.

The harsh exchange just a few steps from the Oval Office  which Boehner later bragged about to fellow Republicans  was only one episode in nearly two months of high-stakes negotiations laced with distrust, miscommunication, false starts and yelling matches as Washington struggled to ward off $500 billion in tax hikes and spending cuts.

When you have a majority of the nation’s populace who are only interested in what’s in it for them from the hand of the taxpayer funded government, and vote in politicians to feed their insatiable desire for more handouts, then no amount of internal political wrangling by republicans over leadership is going to matter.

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posted on 01/02/2013 6:46:22 AM PST
by TADSLOS
(I took extra credit at the School of Hard Knocks)

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